Laws and Regulations Impacting a Diverse Workforce - Due 11.2.21
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Unit5IPGuidance.docxAssignment Requirements
Word Document
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Include a Title and Reference Page
Minimum of 3 pages (not including Title Page or Reference Page)
Responses can be composed as short answers. Please be sure to develop your ideas and thoughts. 1 sentence answers will not earn full credit. You can include explanations and examples to highlight your thoughts.
No more that 20% sourced material
Minimum of 80% Original Content (this means that you are including a minimum of 80% of your own original thought. As you conduct your research be sure to include your understanding of the material.
Additional Guidance
1. 3 Protected Classes
Identify a minimum of 3 protected classes under the Equal Employment Opportunity Act.
Feel free to include the protected classes that were used in your Unit 5 DB. Don’t forget to include a description of the protected classes that you include.
2. Prevent Cultural Barriers, Discrimination, And Biases In The Workplace
What are proactive ways employers can prevent cultural barriers, discrimination, and biases in the workplace?
When you are responding to this question, be sure that you are explaining the strategies that can be employed to prevent cultural barriers, discrimination, and biases in the workplace. You should include a minimum of 2 strategies in your response.
3. Filing an EEO Complaint
How is an EEO complaint filed? List and discuss the steps that go into filing a complaint with the EEO
4. Steps to investigating an EEO Complaint
Once the complaint is filed, an investigation takes place. You will need to explain what those steps are. How is the complaint investigated?
5. Retaliation
Explain what retaliation is and how it occurs in the workplace. You can also provide examples to highlight your point.
6. Tangible Employment Action
Define and discuss tangible employment action. You can also provide examples to highlight your point.
7. Liability
Explain a company’s liability (civil versus criminal). Organizations can suffer civil or criminal liabilities
You are looking at Civil (unintentional harm) vs Criminal Liability (intentional wrongdoing or intentional harm)
Here are a couple of videos that explains this further:
For this assignment you are looking at these two types of liability and how the employer can be charged in cases of discrimination.
Here is a video that speaks to discrimination law from a discrimination lawyer based in California:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WkVPVcIr20
In short, when you are responding to the question you want to define both Civil and Criminal Liability and then discuss them in the context of Discrimination Cases.
8. Vicarious Liability
What is vicarious liability, and how does this effect supervisors?
Define vicarious liability
You can provide an example to highlight your points
Include a discussion that explains how vicarious liability affects supervisors
You can find more information here:
9. Remedies
Explain possible remedies for employment discrimination.
Be sure to include an explanation of both types of remedies and how they are applied
You can find more information on this topic here:
https://www.eeoc.gov/remedies-employment-discrimination
10. Recommendations
Provide 3 recommendations for success that might help guide the managers and employees and improve hiring practices.
Each recommendation should be based on the hiring of the EEO Coordinator and a more diverse and inclusive workforce. Be sure to include the following information:
Specific recommendation
Explain how the recommendation can be implemented
Discuss the benefits of the recommendation made
